The most beauteous by far among the women of Achaea will come to the marriage-chamber as your bride – and may she come! 2. [121] Heavey in soul, none the less do I tread the rocks and the thicket-covered strand, where’er the sea view opens broad before my eyes. Heroides 10: Ariadne to Theseus . Alas, how much of Phrygian blood it hath aboard!”. Troy, to be sure, is fallen, hated of the daughters of Greece; but scarcely were Priam and all Troy worth the price to me. [17] It will not be through wanton baseness that I shall break my marriage-bond; my name – and you may ask – is free from all reproach. Noté /5. O Xanthus, backward haste; turn, waters, and flow again to your fount! 2. Adonis. Ovid S Heroides books. Away from me with your young men arrayed like women! Or can it be that you favoured fierce war only till you could make me captive, and that you praise lies dead, o’ercome together with my native land? Such old-fashioned regard for virtue was rustic even in Saturn’s reign, and doomed to die in the age to come. Afficher ou modifier votre historique de navigation, Recyclage (y compris les équipements électriques et électroniques), Annonces basées sur vos centres d’intérêt. Ah, but if our seas should foam beneath your oar, then should I be said to have counselled well for myself, then well for my countrymen; but I have neither counselled well, nor will my palace feel your presence more, nor will you bathe again your wearied limbs in the Bistonian wave! Ovid doesn't want to be political but seeks eternal fame through his poetry. No portal of a dour husband will need unbolting for you in the darkness of night; there will be no guard to be eluded; as the same roof has covered us both, the same will cover us still. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. 13. Let me be stricken with that sword of yours, which, had the goddess not said nay, would have made its way into the heart of Atreus’ son! Why commit seeds to sand? You who are now a son of Priam – let not respect keep back the truth! 1 H. Lamarque, « L’édition des œuvres d’Ovide dans la Renaissance française », in Ovide en France d ; 2 Voir à ce propos la précieuse étude de Marine Molins, Charles Fontaine traducteur, le poète et ses ; 1 Les Héroïdes d’Ovide connaissent un grand succès littéraire et éditorial à la Renaissance. – and by the very fault I might well have won you for my own. Alas, wretched me, that love may not be healed by herbs! Whither has fled your light love so quickly from me? Heroides and Amores. ‘Tis but a base beginning,2 to prize a stolen mistress more than your native land. Elle est certainement tombée, cette Troie, odieuse aux filles de la Grèce. 20. Theseus. Heroides 1: Penelope to Ulysses. I had faith in your wheedling words, and you had good store of them; I had faith in your lineage, and in the names it shows; I had faith in your tears – or can these also be taught to feign; and are these also guileful, and ready to flow where bidden? Tithonus. Read to the end, whatever is here contained – what shall reading of a letter harm? Menoetius’ son himself,3 at the time I was delivered up, whispered into my ear: “Why do you weep? Sélectionnez la section dans laquelle vous souhaitez faire votre recherche. [25] And not to have claimed me back is but a slight thing; you even oppose my being restored, Achilles. But Oenone remains chaste, false though her husband prove – and, after your own example, she might have played you false. In your own hall they are masters, with none to say them nay; my heart is being torn, your substance spoiled. Those whom ‘twere better you destroyed, Neptunian Pergamum affords; for matter for your sword, go seek the foe. I do not disdain to bend my knee and humbly make entreaty. 1. [11] When have I not feared dangers graver than the real? You will reap the fresh first-offerings of purity long preserved, and both of us will be equal in our guilt. Download in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format for read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. His works include the Heroides, a collection of poems in the form of letters from heroines to their loves. [99] And am I to expect, when you went forth with thought never to see me more? Me, the builder of Troy, well known for keeping faith, loved, and let my hands into the secret of his gifts. [33] That day spoke doom for wretched me, on that day did the awful storm of changed love begin, when Venus and Juno, and unadorned Minerva, more comely had she borne her arms, appeared before you to be judged. When men shall have read of Sciron, and of grim Procrustes, and of Sinis, and of the mingled form of bull and man, and of Thebes brought low in war, and of the rout of the two-framed Centaurs, and of the knocking at the gloomy palace of the darksome god – after all these, under your own image let be inscribed these words: What guilt stands in my way, that I may not remain your own? Mnemosyne 65, no. It may be you are already won by another bride, and feel for her the love that favoured me but ill; and since I have fallen from out your life, I feel you know Phyllis no more. Alas! The men of Dulichium and Samos, and they whom high Zacynthus bore – a wanton throng – come pressing about me, suing for my hand. The story of Meleager, who slew his mother Althea’s brother, and was cursed by her. What you must have given had you had to buy me back from Atrides with a price, but you refuse as a gift! You ask. La commande 1-Click n'est pas disponible pour cet article. The gods grant, I pray, that our fated ends may come in due succession – that he be the one to close my eyes, the one to close yours! The young wife comes bearing thank-offering for her husband saved; the husband sings of the fates of Troy that have yielded to his own. Let the waves bear me away, and cast me up on your shores, and let me meet your eyes untombed! Even now my love is loath to let me think you wrong me. To what end, pray, so many pledges of faith to me?